1. Home Front During WWII
Learning Goal: Students will be able to explain how Americans supported the war effort from home.
- Supporting the war effort (war bonds, scrap/metal drives, rationing, enlisting, President Roosevelt)
- War industry
- Women and minorities in the workforce (Rosie the Riveter, bracero project)
- Executive Order 9066 (Japanese American internment camps, Korematsu v. U.S.)
Scale: 4 3 2 1
In addition to a 3 student will be able to explain and analyze how Americans supported the effort from home.
Student was able to explain how Americans supported the war effort from home.
Students was able to identify how Americans supported the war effort from home.
Students was able to partially identify how Americans supported the war effort from home.

2. Home Front During WWII
The war provides new opportunities for women and minorities at home.
Women took the place of men in the work force. 25% of the labor force was women. Many women became wage earners for the first time. “Rosie the Riveter” was a fictional symbol that represented working women. Over 300,000 women served in the armed forces.
Over 1 million African- Americans and tens of thousands of Native Americans and Hispanics worked in the defense industry. Minority groups served in the armed forces in segregated units.

3. Helping in the War Effort Examples
War Bonds- Bonds that were temporary loans to the government, from the people. At a certain time the bonds would be worth an amount higher then what you paid to get them.
Victory Gardens- Gardens planted to save from buying extra food at the grocery stores. This is food that could be sent to the troops.

4. Home Front WWII
The war provides new opportunities for women and minorities at home. As minorities took advantage of the new opportunities given to them in the workplace, there was a backlash of racism towards African and Hispanic Americans.
1943- Zoot Suit Riots Los Angeles
1943- Race riots in Detroit

5. Home Front During WWII Americans support the war effort at home
Automakers stopped making cars as a way to save metal. Many Americans at the direction of the government started to ration war materials like food, rubber, metal and oil. Americans helped to pay for the war by buying War Bonds from the government.

6. Home Front During WWII
Thousands of Japanese-Americans are sent to internment camps during WWII.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor anti-Japanese feeling grew and many people started to distrust Japanese-Americans living in the United States. President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 requiring all persons of Japanese ancestry to leave the Pacific coast area of the United States.

7. Home Front During WWII
Life in the internment camps for Japanese-Americans.
Over 100,000 Japanese-Americans were forced to leave their homes and leave their possessions behind as they relocated to prison-like internment camps away from the West coast. About 2/3 of those sent to the camps were native born American citizens (Nisei). Many Japanese Americans volunteered to serve in the armed forces as a way to show their loyalty to the United States. Fred Korematsu (Korematsu v. United States) sued to the Supreme Court stating that Executive Order 9066 was unconstitutional, but his claim was denied.
Fred Korematsu